Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-21


Does not the mother care anything about
himQ He has broken her heart. She has
never smiled since he went away. All
day long and almost all night she keeps
asking: "Where is he? Where can he
be-" He is the first thought in her pray
er and the last thought in her prayer
the first thought in the morning and the
last at night. She says: "Oh, God
bring back my boy! l must see him
again before l die. Where is he?
must see him again before l die" Oh
do not his father and mother care for
him? You go away from your Heavenly
Father, and you think he does not care
for you because you will not
even read the letters by which he in
vites you to come back, while all
heaven is waiting, and waiting, and wait
ing for you TO return. A young man said
to his father: az am going off; | will
write TO you at the end of seven years and
tell you where l am Many years have
passed along since that son went away,
and for years the father mas been going to
the depot in the village, Oh the arrival of
every train, and when he hears the Whis-
tie in the distance he is thrilled with ex-
element, and he waits until all the pas
sengers have come out, and then he waits
until the tram has gone clear out of sight
again, and then he goes home, fastening
back to the next train; and he will be at
every traln until that son comes back,
unless the son waits until the father be
dead. But, oh, the greater patience of
God He has been waiting for you, not
seven years, not nine years, but
tor supe of you, twenty
years, thirty years, forty years, fifty
years-Waiting, calling, waiting, calling,
until nothing but Omnipotent patience
could have endured it. Oh, my brother!
do not take the sentiment of my text as
your sentiment. We do care for your
soul. One Sabbath night years ago in my
church in Brooklyn young man APP
peared at the end of the platform, and
he said to me: 81 have just come off the
sea-" | said "When did you arrive?'
Said he: 81 came into port this after
noon. | was in great blow off Cape
Hatteras this last week, and Thought that
| might as well go to heaven as to hell. |
thought the ship would sink; but, sir,
never very seriously thought about my
soul until to-night.'' said to him: 600
you feel ttat Christ is able and willing TO
save your" ooh, yes" he replied, 81
do" "WeH," l said, "now are you
willing to come and be saved by Hm?"
81 am" he said "Well, will you now, in
TIE prayer We are about to offer,
give yourself to God for
time and eternity?" 81 will" he said
Then we knelt in prayer, land after we had
got through praying he told me that the
great transformation had taken place.
could not doubt il. He is on the sea now
do not know what other port he may
gain or lose, but | think he will gain the
harbor Of heaven.
Star of peace beam DER the bill0w,
ess the soul that signs fer Thee;
Bless the sailors lonely pillow
Far, far at sea.
1t was a sudden conversion with him
that night. Oh, that it might be sudden
conversion with you to-day! God can
save you in one moment as well as he can
in a century. There are sudden deaths,
sudden calamlties, sudden losses. Why
not sudden deliverances? Gods spirit is
infinire in speed. He comes here with
omnipotent power, and he IS ready here
and now instantaneously and forever,
to save your soul. l believe
that multitude of you will
to-day come to God. l feel you are COM |
lies and your friends with you. They |
have heard in heaven already of the step
you are about to take. The news has |
been cried along the golden streets, and
has rung out from the towers: ga soul |
saved! A soul saved!" But there is
some one here to-day who will reject this |
Gospel. He will stay out of the kingdom |
of God himself. He will keep his family |
and his friends out. 1t is dreadful |
thing for man just to plant himself in |
the way of life, then keep back his |
children, keep back his companion in life,
keep back his business partners-refuse |
TO go into heaven himself, and refuse 10 |
let others 60 in.
A young man, at the close of relig- |
ious service, was asked to decide the |
matter Of his sOuPs salvation. He said: |
81 will not 40 it tonight" Well, the |
Christian man kept talking with him, and
he said: Il insist that tonight you either
take God or reject HIM" "Wen," said !
the young man, ''it Y u put il that way,
will reject Him. TGere now, the mat
ter is settled On his way home
on horseback, he knew not that
s tree had fallen aslant the
road, and he was going at full
speed. and he struck the obstacle and |
dropped lifvless That night his Chris
tan mother heard the riderless horse
plugging about the barn, and mistrusting
something terrible was the matter, she
went ouF and came to the place where
her son lay, and she cried out: ''O5,
Henry! dead and not a Cnristi8n On,
my son! my son! dead and not Cnris-
tian. Oh, Henry, Henry! dead and cot
Christian" GOD keep US from such
catastrophe.
The druggists say salvation Oil has no faults
II always r-lieves pain insSantlY.
at is alleged by some one that DIR. Mary